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by Leace 2237 days ago
> It was a fun little giveaway experiment funded by someone else, in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography.

It was not "someone else". Keybase is directly funded by Stellar (source: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar) and the crypto offering was just a PR/marketing move to increase adoption for crypto of Stellar not something "in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography".